The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-25

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toch, has been dedicated at FeldeTville, in
Orangeburg county.
W w. Russell is building boat to bo
usel Oh the Kcowee and Little rivers for
CARRYING crossticS to the railroad.
Ridge Spring is very much exercised over
the electric cure Of Mr.. Merritt, effected
through his resorting to flower pit
Abbeville lledil'm: We have it from
reliable source that n new Presbyterian
newspaper will shortly be established here.
The Board Of Examiners for Horny county
are considering the question of having q
normal school for the teachers of that
county.
Mallet Bros lumber mills, with all the
machinery and attachments situated about
six miles above Sumter, were burned Il few
days ago.
More than $1,000 grape vines have been
planted in the vineyards in and around
Walhnlla. Tho number planted is increas-
ing year by year.
John D.. Everett, of Beach Island, has in
his possession a cedar chest which has been
in the family continuously since it was man
ufactured in 1850, and the date can be plainly
| seen upon it.
Sumter's town council settled the water
works question Thursday by accepting the
| plans proposed by Charles A. Hague for the
! Charles f. Brakeman Manufacturing Com
pany of Boston.
Mai. Woodward, one of the proprietors of
the ROckton granite quaITes near Pros
! pcrity, has more orders than he can fill,
and thousands Of dollars worth of work has
TO be refused on account Of the scarcity of
wOrkmer.
Sarah Foster. a colored woman, living on
| Mrs. Mobley's plantation near Woodward,
gave birth on April II to three fully devel-
oped children. They were all boys, and at
last accounts the mother and children were
getting on finely
During heavy thunder storm, which
| passed few miles below Sumter at |
! o'clock Friday. a house three miles from that
! town, occupied by Frank Harvin, was struck
! by lightning, and two boys about Is years
! OF age We're Frustrated.
, A declaration has been filed in the office
of the Secretary of State by the promoters
OF the new Greenville bank preparatory to
obtaining a charter. 1t is TO be called ''The
| Peoples Bank of Greenvi!le," and is to have
a capital Of 500, 900, divided into 1000
shares of $50 each.
A wren has built her nest under the caves
OF the express car on the Abbeville Branch.
1t is secure from rains and storms and so
| substantially constructed that it can with
stand the jostlings of the car. Jenny
Wren makes four trips between Abbeville
and Hodges every day.
w. E. Good the father of the victim of
the recently lynched murderers at York
vile, is said to be greatly improved in his
| mental condition, and he is now allowed to
stroll about the grounds of the asylum. 1t
Is within the bounds of possibility that he
may soon entirely recover
Capt. John D. Browne, of Barnville
county, has sent to the Department of Agri-
culture lot of excellent Kolb Gem water
mellon seed for distribution to the farmers
OF the State, and any farmer desiring a
package can obtain it by sending a request
and &c. stamp to the department.
The water works question, which has so
long been agitated in Sumter, may be said
to be now finally settled, and Sumter will
in a few months have first-class water
works. The meeting of the Town Council
was held Saturday, and the discussion of the
question concluded satisfactorily.
During the play which was rendered on
Tuesday by the Laurens amateurs, Lee
Simpson met with a most painful acct
dent In most tragic part of the per-
Torrance a pistol was fired, and by mis-
chance it inflicted a serious powder burn in
his face and several particles of powder
entered one eye. He is still confined to his
room.
The Town Council of Rock Hill at a re-
cent meeting decided to furnish each drug
gist with copy of the law in reference to
drug stores selling whisky, and to require
them to keep it posted in a prominent place
IN their stores, and to require each doctor
to certify ut the bottom of each prescription
given for liquor that he is in bona fide at
tendance on the patient.
On Tuesday morning at o'clock the guests
at the Bendela Hotel were aroused from
slumber by the peculiar and terrific barking
of dog belonging to the hotel proprietress
In ascertaining the cause of the disturbance
it was discovered that a lamp had exploded
in the third story of the building and the
fire was well under way 1t was prompt
ly put out and the building saved by the
canine
A. B. Towers, merchant of Anderson
understands how to raise and keep potatoes
He has on hand about forty bushels OF
sweet potatoes which are perfectly sound
after having used all he needed through the
winter, besides having sold large quantity
. and still has enough to last him till sweet
potatoes come in again. He has also had
plenty of Irish potatoes all the winter, but
, has sold out his crop.
The handsome dwelling house at Hodges
which was built and occupied by the late
, | DR. w. c. Norwood, but recently owned by
George Speer of LaGrange Ga, was
burned Monday night. The house cost
$500. The fire was evidently the work OF
tlii Us WHO llIbI
, the fire saw that the plastering had been
knocked off and the fire set in behind The
dwelling was insured for 81, 800, which will
not cover the loss by 81 900 or 81, 800.
The very night that Judge Lynch wrote
! his letter of justification to South Caroina
| and warned the people that he had not yet
| abdicated the bench, he paid hurried visit
| to Walhalla, induced white man TO leave
his house, and carried him to the hail OF
justice, where he was tried and sentenced &c
/, receive 100 lashes, which were promptly APP
! piled TO every available square inch of his
body, Charge, too much abuse of his wife
and not enough bread for the children.
, Abbeville Press and Banner. A gooc
deal of poetic sentiment has been INDUCED
in with reference 20 the belief that the Pres
hyteriau church bell tolled its own funera
during the burning of the building We
thought at the time of indulging in a little
of this sort of sentiment ourself, but SON,
one spoiled the story by saying that Negro
pulled the rope. Going out TO learn Ger
tanly about it, we found the negro who
said he rang the bell, doing so as an expert
mcnt 70 see what progress the fire had mad,
in destroying the tower.
, The Governor has commissioned r. n
Richbourg as Brigadier General of the
Third brigade, aud Gen. Richborg up